Consuming Web Services

• Why use Web Services?
• Software Pre-requisites
• Limitations on IBM i
• What is a RESTful Web Service?
• Should You Invoke Web Services on the Client or Server?
• Using XPRIM_HttpRequest
• Setting Up Your HTTP Request
• Using XPRIM_UriBuilder to Build Your URL
• Adding Request Headers
• Adding Contents to Your Request Body
• Constructing JSON Data for Your Request Body
• Creating Multiple Part (Multipart) Body
• Reading the Response
• Re-using the XPRIM_HttpRequest Object
• Logging Request & Response Data
• Working with JSON Data

Tutorials

• Learn How to Use Google Translate API
• Learn How to Interop with Java Code using Web Services and Tomcat
• Learn How to Interop with .NET Code using Web Services

Examples

• Web API Client Example Library

 

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